skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What does any of that have to do with the true fact that cops exist to enforce the law? I don’t think anyone made the claim that no cops are abusive.
Yes. I am not sure I have ran into this problem in a super major way before, but I remember not being able to do some things at previous gigs. I could not imagine having to ask to install software or config to just get my job done. In the past, we have also dealt with HIPPA data, and it was nice to be trusted with that as well.
What a sad excuse.
The Reddit just got set to private too: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
I don't think there's an exogenous time limit. If the price goes up enough, your broker starts worrying that you won't be able to buy the stock in future. They then might force you to buy now, which pushes the price up further. Hence the squeeze. (Source: learning about this for about a week, completely ignorant, correct me if I'm wrong.)
Cool... thanks, wasn't aware of this... guessing Opera may have done the same... in which case Google are just being kind of a-holes about it.
For those of us not in the know, what is so special about today regarding WSB? I know there's a feud with short sellers going on, but I haven't been following the details.
Code Your Flowcharts
Also banned from discord.
As PDF is essentially saying, “put this thing here”, you’d think it wouldn’t. But it does. You can embed the source text for screen readers. It’s also how copying text from PDFs works.
Why are tiny unit economics so important? Are you one of these people who believe that they will own 50% market share?

The automotive world is competitive, as seen by Tesla fighting for share as we speak. They need to make money sooner than later. Building cars is expensive, you can't scrape by. They should be crushing it right now, with little competition.

These financials don't look good to me, all I'm saying. YMMV.
Chevy Bolt with optional fast charging: 55kW

Tesla Model 3 base model: 170kW

So not really the same league at all.
This happens frequently. Happened last week too. Mostly to remove bots/shills. Will likely come back soon.
That is the sort of discussion that happens around old or terminally ill people. Some people prolong things as long as they possibly can, but in my observations this generally only seems to cause misery to everyone involved.
Use local regression instead of a moving average so your Covid graphs don't lag
I think they actually coordinated with vines posted to their myspace pages... but easier out-of-band communication does lead to more general awareness of the populace. The American revolution might've happened much more quickly - or not at all when the Americans saw Bostonians dancing around in racist indian costumes and compared the relatively minor tax to living conditions back in England proper.
"WallStreetBets is under in tents load and is only for approved submitters. In the meantime, please enjoy some spaghetti. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW1GR7BECq4"
can't afford it? in the UK ibuprofen and paracetamol are like, 20p for a pack of 16!

though I do miss the giant packs you get in the US, all pills come in small blister packs with purchase limits in all shops, to make overdosing more difficult
Remember: they just want to ban the BAD guys. It’s just the bad guys they’re going to go after. They will never go after you as long as you’re the good guys.

How much do you think it would cost to pay the top mod of /r/wsb (which is now private) to make the sub private? How much to some discord admins to ban the discord?

Is that amount more or less than the billions these hedgies were losing?
> And yes, dental care is all over the map— it feels very much like what I imagine US healthcare to be,

Funny enough, dental insurance in the US is very straight forward. I have always gotten quotes up front with very clearly explained charges. The way it has worked is dentist talks over with me what they want done, billing person runs the numbers and gives me paper with estimates, and if I agree I pay whatever balance I owe on the way out.

Amazingly straight forward, kind of like how everything else should work...

FWIW Eye doctors and insurance on glasses works just as well.
Ridiculous. Can’t believe we’re raising a generation of such fragile people. The WSB banter is pretty tame, if not pretty juvenile. Who cares. Don’t join the chat if you don’t enjoy their company. That’s the route I took.
One user made over $50 million on this from a $50K original investment. This screenshot was taken from a post yesterday (1/26/2021), at which point he had made $22 million. Today (1/27/2021), he made an additional $25 million. /r/wallstreetbets is now locked down because of the publicity, but here's a screenshot explaining the story:

https://i.imgur.com/Q1Ue2cU.jpg
I strongly advise everyone against ever giving their smart tv the wifi password.

I have about a thousand times more confidence, that if I use my smart TV as a dumb screen connected to an Xbox one or PlayStation 4, that over a multi-year period of time, Microsoft and Sony will successfully keep their operating systems automatically patched, updated, and secure. As compared to any tv manufacturer.

I have seen people resort to things like installing pihole on their home LAN so that their smart tv will stop showing ads covering 1/3 of the screen whenever they use the menus. At least the advertisements that one will see on the home screen of an Xbox or Playstation are relatively small, unobtrusive, and can be ignored without bother.

In the future I think we will have problems with the fact that hdmi can also carry 100Mbps ethernet. Imagine if you plug your smart tv into some other device, intending just to send video to it, that gives it a dhcp lease and default route out to the internet. All in the name of consumer friendly "just plug it in and it works!" type functionality.
GameStop’s stock ($GME) literally doubled overnight as a Reddit community decided to fight short sellers. Then it blew up.
It worked, Gamestop postmarket price is down from market close.
I'm with them. I have no desire to transfer my assets to an already-wealthy bunch of doctors and healthcare conglomerates in exchange for dragging out the inevitable.
https://upvotocracy.com/a/wallstreetbets
Which makes a lot of sense for the situations where modeling real world objects that can do things and have state makes a lot of sense. Which isn't as often as the OOP advocates would have one believe.
u/DFV has closed $13 million of the position (ie sold for cash, cash in their account). Total position including cash was almost $50 million at close. Incredible.
Would you like to wager when GME will decline by selling short?
Love and Death: “Quality of life” calculations leave out much that matters
With Billions on the line I wouldnt be surprised in the former pretty soon.
Someone went from 50k to 50M by igniting a short squeeze. All eyes were on the WSB subreddit, and discord server. Now both are private or offline.

No one has any chance to coordinate now. Discord’s action is effectively market manipulation in a literal sense, because this is certainly going to affect the market.

I’m curious why the sub went private though.

EDIT: I regret my phrasing. I didn’t mean this was illegal market manipulation, just that discord is literally manipulating the market by cutting off one of two primary coordination channels.

But they’re within their legal rights to do so, of course.

EDIT2: WSB Subreddit is back; mods issued a statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6j4r9/wher...
> However, what happens when you define a method and miss off the `self` parameter is crazy.

@staticmethod

(although why you want this instead of just a module scope function is unclear). If you want this strange behavior, you should be explicit about it.
> but it's not there yet. A PM at OpenAI said it shouldn't be long off though.

Does this mean that the model is still being improved? Or just that your access to it will somehow become better? Either way, I'm curious what that entails.
r/wallstreetbets

Edit: that seems to be private now too?
Usually when someone says they hate OOP they really mean that they hate inheritance and no one taught them about composition.
I think if you really want to understand what is going on you actually have to read the DD "due diligence" and not just look at the funny memes. I found [1] might be a good starting point.

I'm not that into finance stuff, but the idea of a short squeeze still happening at the end of this week definetly seems interesting. It could be triggered by all the call options expiring on Friday, which will have to be covered by then. If that increases the price even more, I guess the short sellers will have to cut there losses and buy back stock, which supposably still might be sold short over 100%.

That's at least how I understood it and I have no clue if that might actually work. Of course there is a huge amount of people buying into GME just beacuse it is fun, memes, or whatever. But the idea behind all that definelty seems like an interesting bet.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l528pz/gme_...
R/WallStreetBets has been set to private after Wall Street pressure
They've officially ticked off rich and well-connected people, so regulators are coming to shake the tree branch (I have no idea whether what they're doing is illegal or not) and the platforms want to distance themselves from that ASAP.
One of Matt Levine's footnotes from a recent column, about short interest being over 100%:

"This does not necessarily mean a lot of people are doing evil illegal nefarious naked shorting! Really, I promise! There is no special limit on shorting at 100% of shares outstanding! Here is an explanation of how options market makers (discussed below) are allowed to short without a locate, but I want to offer an even simpler explanation. There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outstanding, but 190 shares show up on ownership lists. (The accounts balance because C owes 90 shares to A, giving C, in a sense, negative 90 shares.) Short interest is 90 shares out of 100 outstanding. Now D lends her 90 shares to E, who shorts them all to F. Now A owns 90, B 10, D 90 and F 90, for a total of 280 shares. Short interest is 180 shares out of 100 outstanding. No problem! No big deal! You can just keep re-borrowing the shares. F can lend them to G! It's fine."
I learned about these experiments at university some 30 years ago, and found this to be a very powerful lesson. Of course these experiments were unethical, but I have seen nothing since that disproves the outcome and I firmly believe that a large percentage of people will happily kill other people or commit heinous crimes when some authority tells them to and they can convince themselves it it not their responsibility.

The think I took from it was that I am always responsible for anything that results from my actions. So in my career I always tried to consider what work I do, what customers I work for, and what might come from the things I do. In a business environment that is often not easy, most people work from a mindset that anything profitable is good as long as it's not illegal.
"Gay bear" is almost exclusively used as an insult on the subreddit, and this week has been one of the primary insults used in reference to the short sellers (everyones #1 enemy on WSB right now). It would still be pejorative even if not used that way, but it's ridiculous to claim that it's not a pejorative when it is explicitly used as an insult.
> nearer servers are closer

This accurate statement is correct.
I think you took me to be arguing for a stronger claim than I actually was. My preferred paradigm is also roughly “idiomatic go or rust.” But the OP isn’t arguing for idiomatic-go-or-rust, as far as I can tell they’re arguing against ever using methods or virtual dispatch (which are core features of both of those languages)! My claim is that the OP’s diagnosis of the problem—“virtual dispatch causes your code to be confusing, get rid of it”—is incorrect.
> This argument seems to come up for every criticism of OO.

The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.

The problem, as I see it, is that the profession has a history of treating programming paradigms as just being a bag of features. They're not just that, they're also sets of guiding principles. And, while there's something to be said for knowing when to judiciously break rules, blithely failing to follow a paradigm's principles is indeed doing it badly.

This is a particular problem for OO and procedural programming. At least as of this current renaissance that FP is enjoying, advocates seem to be doing a much better job of presenting functional programming as being an actual software design paradigm.

It's also the case that, frankly, a lot of influential thought leadership in object-oriented programming popularized some awful ideas whose lack of merit is only beginning to be widely recognized. If null is a billion dollar mistake, then the Java Bean, for example, is at least a $500M one.
Maybe OP thinks it literally can't go tits up?
> So what does the price mean at this point?

What does the price of anything mean?

Why is a Audi "worth" $60K but a VW "worth" $30K? A Porsche "worth" over $100K? Why is a Patek Philippe or A. Lange & Söhne Tourbillon watch worth $100K? Why should I pay $300 for one All-Clad pan when for the same price I can get a 10-piece set at Costco?

Surely you have things that you think are worth paying more for while for others you wouldn't spend more than some 'basic' amount.

People perceive things as being of different quality.

It's not that everyone (!) thinks that GameStop (GME) is "worth" over $300 a share, it's just that the folks at the hedge funds are willing to pay over $300 for each share because they have contractual obligations to fulfill, and if they do not they (a) may be sued for a lot of money and/or (b) go to jail.

So each share of GameStop is "worth" this much to the hedge funds because it gets them out of paying the consequences of (a) and (b). Paying $300/share may be "cheap" compared to paying those consequences.

And to go back to my first paragraph: a Porsche is not "worth" $100K to me—because I'm not willing to pay for it, or even for an Audi. But it may be "worth" it to someone else because they are willing to pay for it.
Gosh that The Verge cookie acceptance popup takes up HALF THE SCREEN, lol.

Good old element picker to the rescue!
> Anecdotally - it seems like a non-trivial percentage of my mom's trips to the vet end in euthanasia.

Part of this could be that pets are limited in their ability to communicate details of their feelings to humans, making it harder for humans to tell the difference between a pet that is acting off because of something that they will recover from without a trip to the vet and one that is acting that way because of something that is serious and is going to go downhill fast if you don't take them to a vet soon.

This leads to vets first going to the vet for a given illness later into that illness than a human with a similar illness would have went to the doctor, hence a greater chance of it being too late.
Now that's interesting, makes me see discord in a bit of a poorer light to be honest.
> He starts a VC fund. The fund has no "major" wins.

Box, Slack, Yammer, Palantir. I guess I don't know what the definition of "major" is, but those seem decent. The VC fund did eventually "burn down", but not because of bad investments but because he had some personal issues.

I don't have a strong opinion about him as a person. I just don't understand why a criticism was that he was a bad VC. It seems like he probably came out OK there.
> As best I can figure, most of the /r/ guys are doing this as a form of trolling and aren't expecting to get rich off it or pour their live-savings into it.

There are certainly a lot of people talking about "sell your house, put it all into Gamestop". I hope the majority of people reading it recognize it as a joke, but I'm sure some people are heavily overinvested in gamestop right now, to the extent that losses will hurt.
Typing "echo <ctrl-v><esc>c<return>" to fix a garbled Vt100 like terminal remains embedded in my brain from long ago. Despite simpler things like "stty sane" existing. I don't know if maybe I was an admin on some box with a wonky stty, or why that's in my brain.
More concerning to me than body fat or BMI is the number of Americans that are pre-diabetic and the numbers of them that are unaware. [1] The side effect is excess fat, but that is just a symptom and where the fat ends up is most important. A fatty liver will result in a big gut and excess fat around internal organs. This fat triggers immune responses, inflammation and can even lead to certain types of cancer.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor...
>I’m curious why the sub went private though.

They considered making it private [and did briefly] during previous fiascos. At the time there were threads by the mods in which you can post so you are included but the alternative was by post history. It's very possible they've left e.g. the 10% most active posters in the sub and can still coordinate to an extent.

Edit: That seems to be the case, as their new message is
"WallStreetBets is under in tents load and is only for approved submitters. In the meantime, please enjoy some spaghetti. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW1GR7BECq4"

Edit2: Now changed to "We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back.
This is not accurate. Generics in the US skip animal testing, clinical trials, and bioavailability testing.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/types-applications/abbreviated-new...

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/generic-drugs....
It’s hard to address this without writing an essay, but what Apple has done is largely introduce annoyances, without actually hurting workflows. That’s not nearly enough to get people to switch platforms en masse. The Nvidia situation is a good example of a problem of the magnitude that will actually get people to migrate off of a platform, but the markets that need Nvidia on local hardware is small enough that it hasn’t made much of an impact.

But look at the other markets, why would anyone switch off of the Mac for other use cases like development, A/V editing, Adobe Creative Suite apps, or design? This is debatable, but you could make the case that Apple is best-in-class for all of those, and there’s no other platform you could make that case for (e.g., Linux is clearly worse for A/V editing, and Windows/Linux for design, both missing core apps - note also I’m excluding high-end specialized hardware you’d find at a studio for example).

Migrating off of platforms is a huge hassle, and although they’ve skirted the line, they haven’t actually crossed it by hurting workflows (outside of Nvidia).

(In fact I’d argue that the worst casualties of Apple's bad Mac years were advantages that only Apple had. Apple had a thriving indie software ecosystem that produced one of the greatest platform exclusives in modern history, Sketch. That doesn’t happen anymore because Apple's approach to the Mac App Store prevents it. But that was an advantage only Apple had and therefore they could afford to lose it, because there’s nothing else to switch to that also had it. Apple were willing to sacrifice there own advantages for their security crusade, but they weren’t wiling to go all the way and block apps like Adobe CS and VS Code from running on the platform, which the security model they have been pushing for would require. Because blocking those apps would actually have resulted in lost market share, because those apps run on Windows.)
Or the financials of the medicinal industry in the US is so fucked up and go through so many middle-men that the prices gets artificially pushed up.
A good time to shill for the open source, distributed reddit alternative: https://getaether.net/
Someone likely paid the platforms and/or admins to take them down
This is actually the idea behind Direct Primary Care[1]; basically the idea is that by not taking insurance the overall cost of care goes down due to the decreased overhead around the claims process.

My dad is a PCP who switched his practice over to that model several years ago. From what he's told me he prefers it a lot over the traditional model specifically because it allows him to have a subscription based model rather than charging per-visit. That means that his revenues are more consistent but also has the benefit of aligning the patients' and doctors' incentives more directly: the doctor makes more money when their patients are healthy than when they are sick so they're incentivized to do a better job.

It also meshes well with telemedicine and chat-based consultations. He was offering both of those options to his patients well before covid because it tends to save both doctor and patient a lot of time, and there's no concern over "how much do I bill for telemedicine vs a normal visit, and how do I bill insurance for it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_primary_care
> You can't just reduce risk without also reducing gains.

You can (assuming you haven’t exhausted all available independent investment opportunities with equivalent risk/reward profile) reduce risk without reducing expected gains.

Doing so (assuming you were investing suboptimally for your the prior risk level and expected returns) involves reducing in the part of the distribution above the mean offsetting the increase in the part below the mean.

Buying a 10% interest in each of 10 lottery tickets (ignoring practical risks associated with deals to split winnings) doesn't reduce your gains compared to buying one lottery ticket, it just reduces your risk.

This is the whole point of diversification.
I notice certain pattern among some internet communities.

Extreme hype / popularity around a community, followed by degeneration (or increased visibility of prior degeneracy) of that community, followed by bans and/or deplatforming. Off the top of my head FatPeopleHate, TheDonald, and recently Parler are prior examples, I bet there are others though.

WallStreetBets seems like it's heading down a similar path. In fact, I bet a lot of the people in these communities overlap, though I have no proof.
With benevolent humanist self-improving AIs, the question is basically moot. Someone invented that AI, it did the rest. Let's say it started a company, rolled out fusion power, interactive personalized education and healthcare at very minimal cost, used the proceeds to expand into space and to subvert whatever was in its way.
More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)
They don't. Please see my sibling comment
> The main concept of the Berty Protocol is the "group", a virtual place where multiple devices can share messages and metadata using OrbitDB, which itself relies on IPFS.

Doesn't IPFS rely on blockchain?
No, a class is a data type coupled to functions operating on that class. For the purpose of this discussion a module is a way to semantically group types and functions without coupling them (languages like OCaml get fancy by actually typing modules which enables some neat ideas, but is not important to this discussion).
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